Word: steams
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...honor and duty, some stern dictums from his parents ("Thank God every day for what you've been given . . . don't feel sorry for yourself . . . admit your mistakes, you'll only get back what you give"), and something else. Head down in his wool scarf, puffing steam in the cold, he recalled what he saw in the first months in Nixon's White House, when the seeds of today's disaster were sown. "All those people were running around with their vulnerable egos, more interested in their power than in governing," he said. "So much...
...closed its asbestos insulation plant in Tyler, Texas, two years ago, it did an unusually thorough job of cleaning up after itself. Some 60 workers spent a week scraping asbestos waste from machinery and depositing it in a nearby dump. Then another crew took over. Ceilings and walls were steam cleaned. Every piece of equipment in sight was scrubbed down; some machinery was disassembled and shipped to P.C.C.'s home office in Pittsburgh. What was left was cut up and buried. When the crew finished, all that remained of the plant were two dilapidated wooden buildings that had once...
...University used 36 per cent less steam in December than in December 1972, Arcand said, and is running about 32 per cent less thus far in January...
...been giving India's masses hope of being better fed. Also, the high cost of importing fuel will force the government to cut oil imports to the bone and allocate the tight supplies. The steel, fertilizer and railroad industries will receive priority, but even the railroads are building steam locomotives rather than more efficient, but oil-burning, diesels. Overall, says Sarwar Lateef, a respected economics journalist, the impact of the oil crisis makes India's five-year plan an exercise in "cuckoo-land optimism...
...through revolving doors.or reading a medical thermometer. But Rube Goldberg's zany imagination and zippy drawing style really blossomed with the Inventions of Professor Lucifer Gorgonzola Butts-those incredible falling domino devices that poke fun at the complex concatenations of modern technology by deploying sleepy dogs, melting ice, steam whistles and levers to light a cigar in an open car going 50 m.p.h. or pluck the cotton wadding out of a pill bottle...